Saturday, August 30, 2014

It's announced today that the PS3 and PS Vita version of Dengeki Bunko Fighting Climax will have Akira Yuki and Pai Chan from Virtua Fighter playable as player character and support character respectively.

It's announced today during Isshuu Sengeki Hai Tokyo qualifier that Hyper Street Fighter II, Street Fighter III 3rd Strike, Vampire Savior, Street Fighter Zero 3 will be on NESiCAxLive. Player name and data (logs and points) can be saved, and viewed on cellphones.

NESiCAxLive is Taito's arcade game distribution network that allows a cabinet to download and switch between games to save cost and space for a separated cabinet.

Four games announced today will be open to play-test in Isshuu Sengeki Hai Osaka qualifier on August 30.

The popular voice actress Kana Ueda posted this picture last night. It seems like it was for some magazine (taken on August 4). (There're several voice actor magazines in Japan which normally have voice actors/actresses as models.)

Offensive Force input has been changed. It now requires 1 bar instead of 50%.

Defensive Force has been added.

EX Force Action (EX special move) has been added. (Perform by pressing B+C instead of single button.)

Link Force Attack now requires exactly 4 bars of Support Link Gauge.

New moves have been added to certain characters.

Move inputs have been changed for certain characters.

Some moves have been altered.

Blade Arcus was scheduled for this Summer in the arcades when announced, but the release date is now "in 2014." From today's poster, it's possible that it will launch with 10 characters and new characters will be added over time.

Tenka Musou Cup Summer 2014: Koihime Enbu was held on August 16 at Tokyo Leisure Land Akihabara game center. This's the tournament where top Koihime fighting game players from around the country compete.

Tenka Musou Cup is the name of the team tournament that was first held at the same place in 2012, for the first game–Shin Koihime Musou: Otome Taisen Sangokushi Engi. The game was later ported to PC and PS3. The sequel, Koihime Enbu, was released on July 17 in the arcades.

Koihime Enbu was used for the first time in this 5th Tenka Musou Cup 3 on 3.

These match videos are from the official stream here. (Audio sync problem is from source) Brackets are here and here.

3rd place

Final

As you can see, this game is footsie-based, Samurai Shodown style. You can do long combos only after a counterhit by the move called Hougeki (It's SF4's Focus Attack minus Armor and Dash Cancel). There's no comeback mechanics.

Sunday, August 17, 2014

KSK and Nekojita have spent a little bit more than 4 hours trying to beat P.T. on Saturday night. It was 6 AM already and they didn't give up even they had to compete in USF4 3 on 3 tournament on Sunday (and they won the tournament!).

If you're a Daigo Umehara fan or just a Japanese fighting game fan in general, you should have heard about Akiba or Akihabara district already. This's where Umehara's childhood legends began. It's also the place where a fighting game location test usually takes place.

Akiba's Trip: Undead & Undressed for PS3 and PS Vita is released today (August 12) in North America. The adventure game is set in virtual Akihabara district so this's one of the best opportunities to get to know and navigate the place without having to actually go there. (It also features dual language of both Japanese and English voices and text.)

The Osaka Police's Consumer and Economic Crime Division searched the Tokyo headquarters of manga and game publisher Square Enix, as well as other locations linked to the publisher, on Tuesday. The police is investigating alleged copyright violations — specifically, the use of another company's popular game characters without permission in a manga series.

The company emphasized that it repeatedly requested Square Enix to immediately halt the sales of Hi Score Girl's digital release, print volumes, monthly magazine serialization, and other releases. However, SNK asserted that it did not receive any kind of sincere response.

It looks like Phoenix Wright will be top tier in this SNK vs. Square Enix.

The game will be released on the consoles for Japan in about half an hour.

The sign reads "1 day left until USF4 launch"

Until now, the Japanese have to go to the arcades or make an English account to buy it online. Many went to Evo2014 without having touched the training mode. TOPANGA TV also refuses to play USF4 on the stream because it's not officially released.

Tuesday, August 5, 2014

The schedules of Taito's UFS4 national tournament qualifiers are revealed today. Daigo Umehara is confirmed to participate in the Tokyo qualifiers that will be held on August 23. He will compete in both singles and 3 on 3 tournament.

For singles, there're 8 groups of 16 players. Umehara is in group F, same as Akimo (Hon/Ele) and Tsuna (Jur).

Other notable players

ChocoBlanka

TKD

Juta

Misse

Santarou

KOK

Cabbage

Mago

Reiketsu

Itabashi Zangief

Acqua

Momochi

Banbaban

Nishikin

For 3 on 3, there're 4 groups of 8 teams. Umehara is in the same team with Mago and Tokido in group A.

Notable teams

Group A

MadCatz (Tokido, Mago, Umehara)

USF4 Girl Club Team A (Reiko Mihashi, Yuka Kuramochi, Maribo)

Group B

Nemomomon (Nemo, Momochi, Banbaban)

Group C

Takahashi Ke (Hanamaruki, Shungoku Neurosis, Akimo)

Double Dragon (Kyoku, Cabbage, Ojisan)

USF4 Girl Club Team B (Ami0120, ChocoBlanka, Karipaku)

Group D

Chima (Nekojita, Itabashi Zangief, Eita)

Neko Punch (Nyanshi, Misse, Tsukiji)

Kakutei (Shiro, Inco, Keshikaran)

The winner of each group (8 players and 4 teams) from these qualifiers will advance to the finals on October 11.

Lesty
- His title is the Eleven Knight of Ice Fang.
- His class is Knight
- (To Yuma) "If you can't control the dragon power and go rampage, I'll kill you myself. That's my mission anyway."
- He's the leader of the knights of elf land Welrant Kingdom
- The elf land is protecting an ancient power.
- He's veteran the Dragonar team (our party).
- He always watches over Kirika.
- He's old friend Agnum but doesn't get along well.

Rune Songs
- Rune Songs are the ancient art passed down through generations of the elf tribe.
- The art can awaken the true power sleeping within dragon's soul.
- In the battle, Rune Songs can calm rampaging Shining Dragon Ilban.

Weathers
- Monsters and items obtainable on the fields change accordingly to the weather.
- A town NPC named Stellar, a weather researcher, can tell player the weather in real time.

Explorable Points
- These points can be found on the fields.
- They respawn over time.
- Plants, minerals, loots can be obtained when checked.
- Treasure chests don't count as explorable points. They don't respawn and aren't affected by weathers.

Shining Resonance will be released on December 11. One of the
characters will be playable in Beast Note's most anticipated fighting
game Blade Arcus.